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A play and a reading from Sam & Joan McCready, founder-members, Lyric
Theatre, Belfast ~

*3 May 2017 - 7 May 2017. Lyric Theatre, Belfast*.
*A Time to Speak*. The McCreadys' adaptation of Helen Lewis's Holocaust
memoir (2011). A one-woman play, performed by Joan McCready.




*August, 2017, EastSide Arts Festival, Belfast (see website for schedule).*
*No Surrender*. Sam McCready reading his adaptation of Robert Harbinson's
memoir of an East Belfast childhood.

Recent feature on the McCreadys, *Belfast Telegraph* (3 May 2017) ~


Mr McCready, in Charles Dickens costume (*Dickens in the Ulster Hall*,
2012), was recently honored in a new Belfast mural of cultural figures from
East Belfast, including C.S. Lewis, Van Morrison, *et al*.
You Tube video

On behalf of many, continuing success to the amazing McCreadys!

Maureen E. Mulvihill
Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, NJ.

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*New work on Lucretia Coffin Mott, American Quaker activist with Irish
connections *(1793, Nantucket, Mass. - 1880, Cheltenham, Pa.)

Of interest to historians of Irish-American Quaker intersection;
abolitionism; early American feminism:

*Lucretia Mott Speaks: The Essential Speeches and Sermons, *
eds. Christopher Densmore, Carol Faulkner, Nancy A. Hewitt, Beverly Palmer.
University of Illinois Press, March 2017. 304 pp. Cloth, $75.96.


List members outside of the Americas can order the new Mott collection from
Combined Academic Publishers at a 20% discount, with code: CSL17MOTT.
Postage free to UK customers.
Contact
Website

Irish Studies scholars should note that Mott had an Irish connection: she
visited Ireland, found an audience and sermonized.

*Associated Mott Event: A Dedicated Mott Program. *
May 15, 2017. 6:30PM.
Sponsors: Historic Fair Hill & Moonstone Arts Center.
Program will take place at Lucretia Mott's burial site, where the four
editors of the new Mott collection will read and discuss selections from
Mott's speeches from their different perspectives.
Event convenes at Moonstone Arts Center Office,
110A South 13th St., Philadelphia, PA. 19107
Tel. 215.735.9600 / larry[at]moonstoneartscenter.org


Hearty congratulations to the editors and the event sponsors ~ an important
contribution.

Maureen E. Mulvihill / Princeton Research Forum, NJ.
Editor (*Irish Women Poets* series, Alexander Street Press, Va., 2008) of
Mary Shackleton Leadbeater (1758-1826), Anglo-Irish Quaker and political
writer, Co. Kildare; protegee of Edmund Burke. (The Lucretia Mott-Irish
connection could be a new line in my present research on Irishwomen's
political writings and response.)
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Colleagues and students in Irish Studies, please take note:


*Children and the Great Hunger*
International Conference. June 14-17, 2017.
Venue: Qunnipiac University's Great Hunger Institute, Hamden, CT. USA.


For particulars ~



Wishing the conference every success,
MEM

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Subject: New Publication: Griffintown, Montreal
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At the risk of appearing immodest, I would like to draw attention of the =
listserv to my new book, Griffintown: Identity & Memory in an Irish =
Diaspora Neighbourhood, a study of how memory and identity have =
structured the history of Griffintown. Montreal is one of the major =
cities of the Irish diaspora, traditionally home to one of the most =
radical and organized Irish communities. In the years since the =
neighbourhood was discombobulated in the mid-20th century, former =
Griffintowners have re-claimed the neighbourhood as their own and as =
their home, if only symbolically. I tell the story of how =
Griffintowners have used history and memory to tell their story. =20

You can read more about the book here: =
https://matthewbarlow.net/2017/06/12/publication-griffintown-identity-memo=
ry-in-an-irish-diaspora-neighbourhood/ =


And you can order the book from the publisher, UBC Press here: =
http://www.ubcpress.ca/search/title_book.asp?BookID=3D299175516 =
or on =
any book seller=E2=80=99s website. =20

It is only available in hardcover at present; the paperback is out in =
the fall.

Cheers,
Matthew Barlow
UMass-Amherst.=20=

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*Irish Studies colleagues, take note ~ *
CFP, 2018 ASECS Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida.
*Session 19: =E2=80=9CIrish Women Playwrights from the =E2=80=98Long=E2=80=
=99 18th Century.=E2=80=9D *
Dr. David Clare, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
DClare1[at]eircom.net / Recent conference, Limerick, 8-10 June 2017.

In recent decades, movements such as #Waking the Feminists and =E2=80=9CThe=
re Are
No Irish Women Playwrights!=E2=80=9D have highlighted the prejudice regular=
ly faced
by Irish women when they submit their scripts to leading Irish theatres for
consideration. This problem is, of course, nothing new. Irish women
dramatists from the eighteenth century also had trouble getting their plays
produced (in Dublin or London). For example, Maria Edgeworth had two plays
rejected by Drury Lane, and her strongest plays were only ever produced as
=E2=80=9Chome theatricals=E2=80=9D. Similarly, Mary Davys=E2=80=99s The Sel=
f-Rivals was meant to be
performed at Drury Lane but was subsequently dropped from the production
schedule. When Irish women did manage to get their plays staged, they were
rarely revived, even when the initial run was a popular success. This is
true of important plays by Davys, Frances Sheridan, and Elizabeth Griffith.
This panel seeks papers which discuss any aspect of plays written by Irish
women during the =E2=80=9Clong=E2=80=9D eighteenth century. Because so many=
plays by Irish
women from this period were either rejected by those in charge of theatres
in Dublin and London or have rarely been revived, there is much scholarship
to be done on these unjustly-neglected works."


MEM
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